Java Engineering Lead - Vice President

Citi; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi in Pune, India is seeking a seasoned Senior Java backend lead to architect, develop, and deploy scalable services. You will guide a team of developers, drive Spring Boot/Hibernate/JPA backed microservices, and oversee Docker/Kubernetes containerization, CI/CD with Maven/Gradle, and cloud-native tooling.

You’ll mentor engineers, enforce coding standards, and collaborate with product owners and QA to ensure alignment with business goals.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proven expertise in Java (8/11/17), Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA and Spring Cloud.
• Proficiency in Docker and Kubernetes for microservices deployment.
• Strong knowledge of build tools: Maven, Gradle
• Experience working in Agile environment (Scrum, Kanban) and familiarity with JIRA, Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of developers in designing, developing and deploying scalable, secure and maintainable applications.
• Architect and implement robust backend services using Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA and Spring Cloud.
• Drive containerization and orchestration strategies using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Apply modern DevOps principles with Maven, Gradle, CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native tools.
• Collaborate with product owners, business analysts and QA teams to ensure alignment with business goals.
• Participate in and facilitate Agile ceremonies (Scrum or Kanban) including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, refinement and backlog grooming.
• Review code, mentor junior developers and enforce coding standards and best practices.
• Troubleshoot production issues and lead root cause analysis to identify and resolve performance or stability issues.
• Ensure high standards of software quality within team by establishing good practices and habits.

Skills

Leadership

RESTful APIs

Problem-solving

Communication

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

JIRA

Confluence

Git

Maven

Gradle

Angular

Job description

• Lead a team of developers in designing, developing and deploying scalable, secure and maintainable applications.


• Architect and implement robust backend services using Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA and Spring Cloud.


• Drive containerization and orchestration strategies using Docker and Kubernetes.


• Apply modern DevOps principles with Maven, Gradle, CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native tools.


• Collaborate with product owners, business analysts and QA teams to ensure alignment with business goals.


• Participate in and facilitate Agile ceremonies (Scrum or Kanban) including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, refinement and backlog grooming.


• Review code, mentor junior developers and enforce coding standards and best practices.


• Troubleshoot production issues and lead root cause analysis to identify and resolve performance or stability issues.


• Ensure high standards of software quality within team by establishing good practices and habits.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of developers in designing, developing and deploying scalable, secure and maintainable applications.


• Architect and implement robust backend services using Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA and Spring Cloud.


• Drive containerization and orchestration strategies using Docker and Kubernetes.


• Apply modern DevOps principles with Maven, Gradle, CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native tools.


• Collaborate with product owners, business analysts and QA teams to ensure alignment with business goals.


• Participate in and facilitate Agile ceremonies (Scrum or Kanban) including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, refinement and backlog grooming.


• Review code, mentor junior developers and enforce coding standards and best practices.


• Troubleshoot production issues and lead root cause analysis to identify and resolve performance or stability issues.


• Ensure high standards of software quality within team by establishing good practices and habits.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.


• Proven expertise in Java (8/11/17), Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA and Spring Cloud.


• Proficiency in Docker and Kubernetes for microservices deployment.


• Strong knowledge of build tools: Maven, Gradle


• Experience working in Agile environment (Scrum, Kanban) and familiarity with tools like JIRA, Confluence.


• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices architecture and design patterns.


• Experience with source control (e.g. Git), CI/CD with LightSpeed Enterprises


• Strong leadership and team management experience


• Excellent communication, problem-solving and organizational skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Good to have

• Experience with cloud-native platforms (Enterprise Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP)


• Exposure to monitoring and logging tools (e.g. Prometheus, KLK stack).


• Knowledge of testing tools like Junit, Quantum, Mockito, Karma, Jasmine.


• Strong experience in front-end development using Angular (10+)


• Build responsive, user-centric front-end components using Angular.


• Multiple years of experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, design patterns, peer review, etc.)


• Clear understanding of building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications


• Multiple years of experience with agile and iterative software delivery


• Exposure to Cloud infrastructure both on-premises and public cloud (i.e., OpenShift, AWS, etc.)


• Exposure to Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)


• Multiple years of experience CI/CD pipelines and using front-end test strategies and frameworks (Cypress, jasmine, karma, selenium etc.)


• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent work experience


• Exposure to event-driven design and architecture (Kafka, Spark Flink, etc.)


• Exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, either on-premise or public cloud (i.e., Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, Cloudbees Jenkins, etc.)


• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Cloudformation, etc.)


• Exposure to Security, Observability, and Monitoring tools (Grafana Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, CloudWatch, etc.)


• Exposure to database concepts (RDBMS, NoSQL)

Job Family Group

Technology

Job Family

Applications Development

Time Type

Full time

Most Relevant Skills

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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